Anthony Horowitz Timeline

  • Horowitz is born!

    Horowitz is born!
    Wikipedia source Anthony Horowitz is born in Middlesex to a Jewish family
  • First book

    First book
    The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bower, his first book is finished and published. It is a humorous book for children. Later, it is reissued as Enter Fredrick K Bower
  • Horowitz begins to write for television

    Horowitz begins to write for television
    In the 1980s, Anthony Horowitz begins to write for television.
  • Second book of Horowitz

    Second book of Horowitz
    Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet, his second book is written
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    Pentagram series

    The Devil's Door-Bell (1983)
    The Night of the Scorpian (1984)
    Silver Citadel (1986)
    The Day of the Dragon (1986)
  • Groosham Grange

    Groosham Grange
    In 1986, Horowitz wrote the Groosham Grange wihch became a hit.
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    His biggest hits of his early career, the Diamond Brothers

    The Falcon's Malteser (1986)-Filmed as Just Ask for Diamond (1989)
    Public Enemy Number Two (1987)
    South of South East, The French Confection, I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, The Blurred Man, The Greek Who Stole Christmas. (All 1991)
  • First Award

    First Award
    He wrote the book, Groosham Grange and won the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award.
  • Myth and Legends

    Myth and Legends
    A collection of stories from around the world published in one book.
  • Granny

    Granny
    He wrote his first book in 3 years and it was a thriller book about an evil Granny.
  • The Devil and His Boy

    The Devil and His Boy
    The Devil and His Boy is another hit by Horowitz set in the Elizabethan era about Queen Elizabeth I's secret son
  • Horowitz Horror

    Horowitz writes multiple horror stories and binds them in a single book in 1999.
  • More Horowitz Horror

    The sequel to Horowitz Horror is written in 2000 with more horror stories.
  • FIRST ALEX RIDER BOOK

    FIRST ALEX RIDER BOOK
    Stormbreaker is written as a big hit to start off the Alex Rider series. Alex Rider is a teenager that works for MI6, the British secret agency. He is led to this job by his family members who served and died. His first mission is to find information about a new computer that is being passed out to school that tries to hijack kids' minds. He gets gadgets and others to help him
  • Point Blanc

    Point Blanc
    Second book of Alex Rider series, Point Blanc is written on 4st of September. This book is about Alex going to an academy called Point Blanc under cover of a rich man where a South African scientist makes clones of himself and replaces them with the sons of rich people that attend the academy by plastic surgery. Dr. Hugo Grief, the scientist, must be stopped.
  • Skeleton Key

    Skeleton Key
    Skeleton Key, the third book with Alex rider is written where Alex goes to Cuba after foiling a triad's plans which brings him to danger of assasination. Two CIA agents and Alex try to stop Alexei Sarov from starting a nuclear holocaust.
  • Eagle Strike

    Eagle Strike
    Eagle Strike is another book in the Alex Rider series where Alex tries to stop Damian Cray from destroying something. Damian Cray is aiming to stop the world druggers by getting the United State's nuclear arsenal. Alex stops the missiles right on time before it hits but he has to go through many troubles to achieve this.
  • SCORPIA (Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, Assasination)

    SCORPIA (Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, Assasination)
    Scorpia is published on 1st of April to UK. This time, Alex is led to a deadly criminal organization called SCORPIA to find the truth about his dad. Instead, he finds his dark side and starts to help Scorpia in order to prevent thousands of London kids from dying. Alex Rider gets shot in the end by a sniper leading into the next book.
  • Ark Angel

    Ark Angel
    This book was released April 1st, 2005. In this book, Alex takes place for Paul Drevin in being captured by eco-terrorists. Nikolei Drevin, the father, invites Alex to his private place after as repaying the debt. Alex is invited to see Drevin's dream, the Ark Angel, which is a space hotel be launched. However, when they arrive in New York to see the launch, the CIA takes him and explains that Drevin may be the biggest criminal in the world. He plans to destroy the Pentagon. He must be stopped
  • Snakehead

    Snakehead
    In Snakehead, Alex is in Austrailia after falling from space in Ark Angel. He is hired by the ASIS to stop the Scorpia board member, Winston Yu from killing 8 celebrities in their famous "Make Poverty History" conference. He has to stop the bomb and work with his partner and godfather, Ash to find out more about his family.
  • Crocodile Tears

    Crocodile Tears
    A man by the name of Desmond McCain is the founder of a charity called First Aid. They are the first to arrive at a disaster. They get a lot of money support globally because of what they do. However, when Alex does more research on him, he finds out that he is planning to kill half of Africa and go to aid there. Then with the donated money, he will run away with a new identity, not helping the poor Africans at all. This must be stopped.
  • Scorpia Rising

    Scorpia Rising
    The deadly organization, Scorpia is hired to get the Greek Elgin marbles back from the English. They have creative ways of blackmailing in order to get what they need. Can Alex survive through all the pains and sorrows he will be getting?